Dario Floreano

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

  • Evolutionary Robotics. The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organizing Machines, Nolfi, S. and Floreano, D. , Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2001 (2nd print), 2000 (1st print). , 2001
  • Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution., Floreano, D. and Urzelai, J. , Theory in Biosciences, 120, 225-240., 2001
  • Evolution of Plastic Control Networks, Floreano, D. and Urzelai, J. , Autonomous Robots 11, 311-317., 2001
  • Journal Articles

    M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. Gambardella, F. Mondada and S. Nolfi et al. Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms, accepted in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2012.
    C. Mattiussi, P. Dürr, D. Marbach and D. Floreano. Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis, accepted in Journal of Computational Science, 2011.
    P. Dürr, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers , accepted in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10-19, 2010.
    D. Floreano, R. Pericet-Camara, S. Viollet, F. Ruffier and A. Brückner et al. Miniature curved artificial compound eyes, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332-9337, 2013.
    P. Lichocki, S. Wischmann, L. Keller and D. Floreano. Evolving team compositions by agent swapping, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282-298, 2013.
    P. P. Ramdya, T. Schaffter, D. Floreano and R. Benton. Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila, in Plos One, vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381, 2012.
    M. Dobrzynski, S. Mejri, S. Wischmann and D. Floreano. Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Bme, vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011 - 2018, 2012.
    A. Klaptocz, L. Daler, A. Briod, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 - 1157, 2012.
    S. Wischmann, D. Floreano and L. Keller. Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots, in PNAS, vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864-868, 2012.
    P. Lichocki, D. Tarapore, L. Keller and D. Floreano. Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor, in The American Naturalist, vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391-400, 2012.
    J. M. Germann, M. Dommer, R. Pericet-Camara and D. Floreano. An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots, in Advanced Robotics, vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785-798, 2012.
    M. Dobrzynski, R. Pericet Camara and D. Floreano. Vision Tape - a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation, in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131-1139, 2012.
    J. Roberts, T. Stirling, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. 3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots, in Autonomous Robots, 2012.
    W. Karlen and D. Floreano. Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices, in Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, p. 920-926, 2011.
    T. Schaffter, D. Marbach and D. Floreano. GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods, in Bioinformatics, vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263-2270, 2011.
    M. Waibel, D. Floreano and L. Keller. A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism, in PLOS Biology, vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615, 2011.
    S. Leven, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems, in Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405-423, 2011.
    S. Mitri, D. Floreano and L. Keller. Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 278, p. 378-383, 2011.
    W. Karlen and D. Floreano. Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920-926, 2010.
    D. Floreano and J.-C. Zufferey. Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude, in Current Biology, vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847-R849, 2010.
    J.-C. Zufferey, A. Beyeler and D. Floreano. Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power, in International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107-117, 2010.
    D. Marbach, R. J. Prill, T. Schaffter, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano et al. Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286–6291, 2010.
    M. Kovac, J. M. Germann, C. Hürzeler, R. Siegwart and D. Floreano. A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles, in Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics, vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77-91, 2010.
    D. Floreano and L. Keller. Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection, in PLOS Biology, vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029, 2010.
    T. Stirling, S. Wischmann and D. Floreano. Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information, in Swarm Intelligence, vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117-144, 2010.
    D. Tarapore, D. Floreano and L. Keller. Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 64, p. 675-684, 2010.
    M. Kovac, M. Schlegel, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295-306, 2010.
    S. Mitri, D. Floreano and L. Keller. The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests, in PNAS, vol. 106, num. 37, p. 15786-15790, 2009.
    A. Beyeler, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201-219, 2009.
    P. Dürr, W. Karlen, J. Guignard, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination, in Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, vol. 2009, p. 1-10, 2009.
    D. Marbach, T. Schaffter, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods, in Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229-239, 2009.
    D. Marbach, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1158, p. 102-113, Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2009.
    W. Karlen, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, p. 71-78, 2009.
    S. Hauert, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32, 2009.
    D. Marbach, C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1158, p. 234-245, Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2009.
    M. Waibel, L. Keller and D. Floreano. Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648-660, 2009.
    S. Hauert, L. Winkler, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay, in Swarm Intelligence, vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167-188, 2008.
    C. Mattiussi, D. Marbach, P. Dürr and D. Floreano. The Age of Analog Networks, in AI Magazine, vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63--76, 2008.
    D. Floreano, P. Dürr and C. Mattiussi. Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning, in Evolutionary Intelligence, vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-62, 2008.
    M. Suzuki and D. Floreano. Enactive Robot Vision, in Adaptive Behavior, vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122-128, 2008.
    D. Floreano, S. Mitri, S. Magnenat and L. Keller. Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots, in Current Biology, vol. 17, p. 514-519, 2007.
    C. Mattiussi and D. Floreano. Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596--607, 2007.
    J.-C. Zufferey, A. Klaptocz, A. Beyeler, J.-D. Nicoud and D. Floreano. A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot, in Advanced Robotics, vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671-1684, 2007.
    D. Roggen, D. Federici and D. Floreano. Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems, in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61-96, 2007.
    J.-C. Zufferey, A. Guanella, A. Beyeler and D. Floreano. Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243-254, 2006.
    M. Waibel, D. Floreano, S. Magnenat and L. Keller. Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 273, p. 1815-23, 2006.
    J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137-146, 2006.
    D. Floreano, Y. Epars, J.-C. Zufferey and C. Mattiussi. Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots, in International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005-1024, 2006.
    M. Suzuki, D. Floreano and E. A. Di Paolo. The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots, in Neural Networks, vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656--665, 2005.
    D. Floreano, J.-C. Zufferey and J.-D. Nicoud. From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons, in Artificial Life, vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121-138, 2005.
    F. Mondada, L. M. Gambardella, D. Floreano and M. Dorigo. The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics, in Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 12, num. 2, p. 21-28, 2005.
    D. Floreano, M. Suzuki and C. Mattiussi. Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527--544, 2005.
    F. Mondada, G. C. Pettinaro, A. Guignard, I. Kwee and D. Floreano et al. SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept, in Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193-221, 2004.
    D. Floreano, F. Mondada, A. Perez-Uribe and D. Roggen. Machine Self-Evolution, in YLEM journal, vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4-10, 2004.
    M. Dorigo, V. Trianni, E. Sahin, R. Groß and T. H. Labella et al. Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot, in Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223-245, 2004.
    D. Floreano, T. Kato, D. Marocco and E. Sauser. Coevolution of active vision and feature selection, in Biological Cybernetics, vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218--228, 2004.
    C. Mattiussi, M. Waibel and D. Floreano. Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495--515, 2004.
    S. Nolfi, J.-L. Deneubourg, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella and F. Mondada et al. Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize, in Ercim News, num. 53, p. 25-26, 2003.
    S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 6, num. 1, p. 31-37, 2002.
    J. Urzelai and D. Floreano. Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 9, num. 4, p. 495-524, 2001.
    C. De Lillo, D. Floreano and F. Antinucci. Transitive choices by a simple, fully connected, backpropagation neural network: implications for the comparative study of transitive inference, in Animal Cognition, vol. 4, p. 61-68, 2001.
    D. Floreano and J. Urzelai. Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution, in Theory in Biosciences, vol. 120, num. 3-4, p. 225-240, 2001.
    D. Floreano and J. Urzelai. Evolution of Plastic Control Networks, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 11, num. 3, p. 311-317, 2001.
    D. Floreano and J. Urzelai. Evolutionary Robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness, in Neural Networks, vol. 13, num. 4-5, p. 431-443, 2000.
    D. Floreano and J. Urzelai. Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots, in 3D The Journal of Three dimensional images (in japanese), vol. 14, num. 4, p. 64-69, 2000.
    S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Evolutionary robotics: developing robots through artificial evolution, in ERCIM News, vol. 42, p. 12-13, 2000.
    A. Arleo, J. Millan and D. Floreano. Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 15, num. 6, p. 990-1000, 1999.
    S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Learning and Evolution, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 7, num. 1, p. 89-113, 1999.
    J. Urzelai and D. Floreano. Evolution, Modularity, and Emergence in Autonomous Robots, 1998.
    S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do 'arm races' arise in artificial evolution?, in Artificial Life, vol. 4, num. 4, p. 311-335, 1998.
    D. Floreano and F. Mondada. Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots, in Neural Networks, vol. 11, num. 7-8, p. 1461-1478, 1998.
    J. Urzelai, D. Floreano, M. Dorigo and M. Colombetti. Incremental Robot Shaping, in Connection Science, vol. 10, p. 341-360, 1998.
    J. Kay, D. Floreano and W. A. Phillips. Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors, in Neural Networks, vol. 11, num. 1, p. 117-140, 1998.
    D. Floreano and F. Mondada. Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, vol. 26, num. 3, p. 396-407, 1996.
    F. Mondada and D. Floreano. Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots, in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 16, num. 2-4, p. 183-195, 1995.
    D. Floreano, W. A. Phillips and J. Kay. A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance, in Perception, vol. 24S, p. 22, 1995.
    D. Floreano, D. Parisi, F. Antinucci and F. Natale. Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network, in Cognitive Systems, vol. 3, p. 331-349, 1993.

    Conference Papers

    M. Dobrzynski, H. Vanderparre, R. Pericet Camara, G. L'Eplattenier and S. Lacour et al. HYPER-FLEXIBLE 1-D SHAPE SENSOR. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
    T. Stirling, J. Roberts, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2012.
    M. Dobrzynski, I. Halasz, R. Pericet Camara and D. Floreano. Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012.
    M. Kovac, W. Hraiz, O. Fauria Torrent, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, 2011.
    O. Küng, C. Strecha, A. Beyeler, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano et al. The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery. UAV-g 2011 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, 2011.
    T. Stirling and D. Floreano. Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems., EPFL, Lasuaance, Switzerland, 2010.
    S. Hauert, S. Leven, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010.
    J. Shintake, S. Rosset, D. Floreano and H. Shea. Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, 2013.
    L. Daler, A. Klaptocz, A. Briod, M. Sitti and D. Floreano. A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, 2013.
    P. Lichocki, D. Tarapore, L. Keller and D. Floreano. Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 2012.
    P. Lichocki, L. Keller and D. Floreano. Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 2012.
    M. Basiri, F. S. Schill, P. Lima U. and D. Floreano. Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012.
    A. Jimenez Pacheco, D. Bouhired, Y. Gasser, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano et al. Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, 2012.
    A. Briod, A. Klaptocz, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, 2012.
    A. Briod, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano. Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2012.
    F. M. Nieuwenhuizen, M. Jump, M. White, P. Perfect and P. Padfield et al. myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems. 3rd International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.
    M. Jump, P. Perfect, G. D. Padfield, M. D. White and D. Floreano et al. MYCOPTER: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONAL AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS – AN EARLY PROGRESS REPORT. 37th European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, 2011.
    P. Dario, P. Verschure, T. Prescott, G. Sandini and R. Cingolani et al. Robot Companions for Citizens. FET'11, Budapest, Procedia Computer Science, 2011.
    R. Pericet Camara, M. Dobrzynski, G. L'Eplattenier, J.-C. Zufferey and F. Expert et al. CURVACE - CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, Procedia Computer Science, 2011.
    S. Hauert, S. Leven, M. Varga, F. Ruini and A. Cangelosi et al. Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2011), San Francisco, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
    D. Floreano, J.-C. Zufferey, A. Klaptocz, J. M. Germann and M. Kovac. Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 2011.
    M. Dobrzynski, R. Pericet-Camara and D. Floreano. Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
    M. Jump, P. Padfield, M. White, D. Floreano and P. Fua et al. myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems . RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 2011.

    Dario Floreano


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    Fields of Expertise

    • Bio-inspired Robotics
    • Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence
    • Computational Biology